The Trizetto Group has moved its corporate headquarters from Newport Beach, Calif., to Greenwood Village, Colo. The move was made in part to accommodate new CEO Trace Devanny, the former president of the Cerner Corporation, who takes over for Jeff Margolis. Margolis, who founded the company, has become chairman of the firm.
RoundTable Healthcare Partners, a Lake Forest, Ill.-based private equity firm focused exclusively on the healthcare industry, has agreed to sell one of its portfolio companies, Bioniche Pharma Holdings Limited, an Ireland-based specialty sterile injectable pharmaceutical company, to Mylan, Inc., a global generic and specialty pharmaceutical company, for $550 million in cash.
Revenue Cycle Partners, a Montana-based provider of business process outsourcing services for hospitals and healthcare systems, has chosen Stamford, Conn.-based Pitney Bowes, Inc., to provide customized mailing solutions to help ensure HIPAA compliance for hospital clients.
GE Capital, Healthcare Financial Services, based in Bethesda, Md., has provided a $3.2 million credit facility to Tepha, Inc., a Lexington, Mass.-based developer of medical devices.
A.D.A.M., Inc., an Atlanta-based provider of health information and benefits technology solutions, has announced the latest release of the Benergy Enrollment Reporting Suite, incorporating the Izenda Reports, designed to offer richer, more flexible reporting capabilities.
DCS, a Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has signed a five-year deal with Seattle-based Milliman Care Guidelines. Through the deal, DCS will use the company’s content and software to review Medicare claims in 12 Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states and districts.
HealthFusion, a California-based provider of practice automation and revenue cycle management solutions for healthcare providers and billing services, has announced a partnership with the American Osteopathic Association, which will introduce the company’s MediTouch electronic health record to its more than 41,000 physician members looking to implement EHRs in their practices.
Henry Schein Medical Systems, a Boardman, Ohio-based provider of practice management and electronic medical records systems, has become a participating vendor in the AmericanEHR Partners Program, an interactive online tool developed by the American College of Physicians and Cientis Technologies that’s designed to enable physicians to compare EHRs and identify which best suits their needs.
The Markel Corporation, based in Richmond, Va., and Aspen Holdings, doing business as FirstComp, have entered into an agreement for the acquisition by Markel of Aspen, an Omaha, Neb.-based, privately held insurance group that provides workers’ compensation insurance and related services, principally to small businesses, in 31 states.
MedFORCE Technologies, Inc., a Chestnut Ridge, N.Y.-based provider of software solutions for the home medical equipment industry and other healthcare organizations, has announced that the company’s MedFORCE Scan document management software has received preliminary ARRA certification from the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT).
D3 Radiation Services, based in Pittsburgh, has announced that the American Board of Radiology has qualified the company’s eDataAudit service as a Practice Quality Improvement for the purpose of Maintenance of Certification.
WellCity, Inc., an Orlando, Fla.-based wellness-related social network and subsidiary of WellTek, Inc., has unveiled the network marketing platform WellCity Market.
DrTango, Inc., a Roswell, Ga.-based provider of Hispanic health and wellness content, programs, products and services, has changed its company name to HolaDoctor, a change coinciding with the company’s launch of its consumer health and wellness portal.
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ActiveCare, Inc., based in Salt Lake City, Utah, has announced an agreement with the AmeriLife Group whereby AmeriLife will distribute the company’s product and concierge-like services to nearly 1 million AmeriLife senior customers.
Advanced Medical Pricing Solutions of Atlanta and TC3 Health, Inc., of Irvine, Calif., have announced an affiliate partnership to expand the healthcare cost containment offerings of both companies.
eClinicalWorks, based in Westborough, Mass., has announced that Kansas City’s Swope Health Services, one of the largest federally qualified community health centers in the Midwest, has chosen the company’s unified electronic medical records and practice management system for its approximately 200 medical and behavioral health providers.
Wolters Kluwer Health, based in Philadelphia, has announced that the Shoreline Surgery Center in Guilford, Conn., has selected the company’s ProVation MD software for gastroenterology procedure documentation and coding.
Philips Healthcare has announced the launch of a new healthcare consulting services unit, designed to help hospitals maximize their investment in medical and information technology.
The Eclipsys Corporation of Atlanta has announced that Camden-Clark Community Hospital in Parkersburg, W.Va., will replace its legacy system with the entire Sunrise Enterprise integrated suite of clinical and revenue cycle solutions, along with Eclipsys’ Enterprise Performance Management solution suite.
HealthWyse, a Wilmington, Mass.-based provider of home health and hospice software and services, has announced a partnership with ZirMed, Inc., a Los Angeles-based revenue cycle management firm, to bring enhanced administrative and revenue cycle management functions to home health and hospice organizations.
AdvancedMD Software, Inc., a Salt Lake City, Utah-based provider of electronic health record and revenue cycle management automation solutions for medical practices, has announced the launch of the AdvancedBiller program, the company’s first partner channel program for third-party medical billing companies and physician practices.
Acclaris, a Tampa, Fla.-based developer of consumer-driven healthcare financial technology and integrated services, has signed a definitive agreement to sell the company to a new investor group which includes Staley Capital, Trident capital, HarbourVest Partners and Updata Venture Partners, an existing investor.
RollStream, Inc., a McLean, Va.-based provider of enterprise community management services, and Natural Insight, a Sterling, Va.-based company providing a Web-based platform for task management and workforce optimization, have announced a channel partnership to help large organizations, including healthcare providers, optimize their supply chain operations by improving execution management processes and boosting trading partner compliance and performance.
MD On-Line, Inc., a Parsippany, N.J.-based developer of technology enabling EDI transactions between healthcare insurance companies and providers, has entered into a Customer Transfer and Acquisition Agreement with Connecticut-based Transaction Methods, Inc., to handle claims processing transactions for the company’s provider community.